Historical Syntax & Lexical Change презентация

Historical Syntax Syntax seems to change more slowly than phonology and morphology over time But if we look over many hundreds of years, we can see major differences

Слайд 1Historical Syntax & Lexical Change
How Sentence Structure and Vocabulary Change over

Time

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Слайд 2Historical Syntax
Syntax seems to change more slowly than phonology and morphology

over time
But if we look over many hundreds of years, we can see major differences

Слайд 3Basic Word Order
Even basic word order can change over time
S =

Subject, V = Verb, O = Object
SVO: English, Chinese
SOV: Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Urdu
VSO: Welsh, Tagalog
OVS: Klingon (not a real language)

Слайд 4Example of VSO
Welsh: “The man killed the dragon.”
Lladdodd y ddraig y dyn [ɬaðɔð i ðraig i dən] killed the dragon the man
Note: ll is a

voiceless lateral fricative; fl is an Anglicized spelling (Lloyd = Floyd, from Welsh word ‘grey’)

Слайд 5Example of VSO
Tagalog: “The child ate a mango.”
Kumain ang bata ng mangga Ate child mango

(ang and

ng [naŋ] are case markers)

Слайд 6Changes in Word Order
English has changed from SOV to SVO
Old Eng.

“When he visited the king …”
þa hē þone cyning sōhte when he the king visited…
Cf. Modern English “man-eating tiger”
“Man-eating” is an OV structure

Слайд 7Changes in Word Order
Nearly all Sino-Tibetan languages are SOV
But the Chinese

languages have changed to SVO
The Karen languages (spoken in Thailand and Burma) have also changed to SVO

Слайд 8Other Changes in Syntax
Reanalysis and the Chinese copula
Classical Chinese had no

verb ‘to be’
Copular sentences basically looked like “A B” (meaning “A is B”)
A common sentence was “A, shì B” meaning “As for A, this is B”
shì was reanalyzed be speakers as a copula -- it is the Mandarin copula today

Слайд 9Other Changes in Syntax
If you’ve ever studied a Classical Language (Chinese,

Japanese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Greek, etc.) then you know that the syntax can be radically different from the modern forms of those languages
Nearly any aspect of syntax can change!

Слайд 10Lexical Change
Over time, the vocabulary of a language changes
The set of

lexemes (words) shifts
Old words disappear, new words are added
Example: English spectacles, glasses
Word meanings also shift over time

Слайд 11Obsolescence
Why does an old word disappear?
The thing referred to may no

longer exist or be important in the society
A new word with a similar meaning may replace it
Sometimes there is no obvious reason

Слайд 12Innovation
Where do new words come from?
Derivation from existing morphemes
English: Greek and

Latin roots; Hindi: Sanskrit roots; Urdu: Arabic roots
Borrowings from other languages
Other processes (blends, acronyms, etc.)

Слайд 13Borrowing
Borrowed words can radically change the vocabulary [and phonology!] of a

language in a short time
Japanese has had two massive borrowings: Chinese words (8th-12th centuries) and English words (20th-21st centuries)

Слайд 14Japanese Borrowing
In some cases an original Japanese word and an English

borrowing co-exist
One may become obsolete, or the meaning of one or the other may shift
Example: “enjoy”
tanosimu entʃoːi-suru

Слайд 15Korean Borrowing
Korean has fewer English borrowings than Japanese does
But just as

many Chinese borrowings
Consider this triplet for ‘meeting’:
moim native Korean
hwɛhap Chinese borrowing
mithiŋ English borrowing

Слайд 16Korean Borrowing
Sometimes borrowings fill a gap in the native lexicon
Korean has

a number of words for ‘wife’, but they all carry a particular connotation (e.g. humble, respectful)
Recently the English word ‘wife’ has been borrowed as waipɯ. It has a more neutral meaning.

Слайд 17Borrowing in Asian Languages
There are many more examples of borrowing in

the LESA textbook.

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